NewzVille Desk
The Government has appointed Somnath Ghosh as the next High Commissioner of India to Malaysia. Ghosh, an Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1997 batch, is presently serving as Consul General of India in Chicago with consular jurisdiction of seven Midwest States.
The Ministry of External Affairs said that he is expected to take up the assignment shortly.
Somnath Ghosh served as the Ambassador of India to Tajikistan from 2016-19 and to Mongolia 2014-16.
Ambassador Ghosh has headed the International Cooperation work in the Ministry of Defence of India from September 2019 to September 2022. In that capacity, he oversaw defence policy and negotiations with USA, Russia, France, UK, major multinational organizations and India’s land and maritime neighbourhood.
Ambassador Ghosh earned his MSc. from the Indian Institute of Technology from Kanpur.
